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Robert Barron | – On the Road with Bartolomé de las Casas

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Bishop Barron is traveling around the world right now, filming the final two episodes of his Pivotal Players film series. Today, Joseph Gloor interviews Bishop Barron in the car as they recount significant sites they’ve visited so far.

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Bishop Robert Barron These are brief and insightful commentaries on faith and culture by Catholic theologian and author Bishop Robert Barron. The videos complement his weekly sermons posted and podcasted at WordOnFire.org.

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  1. Bishop Barron, few months ago I watched your video with Ben Shapiro and was mad that you were not more direct in your approach in Ben's conversion to the Catholic faith. I felt St. Peter and Paul (both Jews) could have stayed at home and not go through all the trouble if God would save them anyway, as Jews, if Christianity is only the "privileged way". Since then I used to be very critical of you, but by listening and watching more and more of your videos I see my mistakes and feel very remorseful and guilty. I see how hard you actually try to convert people. Sorry for being harsh and critical towards you. I hope you'll forgive me, a sinner. Thank you!

  3. Bishop Barron recommends voting and then invokes Day, who decided not to vote in favor of direct action. I'm not saying we shouldn't vote, although I don't know who I can vote for anymore, but it's an amusing contrast. Still, the Church needs to remember De Las Casas and remember his contribution to the faith and the people of the new world. Thanks Bishop Barron!

  6. Thank you so much for drawing attention to Las Casas! I’ve known about him loosely for a long time, but I have just recently learned a lot more. In an otherwise depressing story of conquistadors behaving cruelly, unfortunately sometimes with clergy supporting them, Las Casas shines out as a true defender of human rights. I actually WOULD like to see him canonized someday. I don’t think his forceful personality should be a barrier to it—St. Jerome, St. Athanasius, and St. Thomas Becket were all notoriously argumentative. Sometimes that’s what it takes to defend the truth, especially when you know you will be opposed by powerful forces.

    (I actually noticed that Wikipedia lists him as a Servant of God with a Feast day of July 18 and venerated by the Episcopal Church here in the US.)

  7. Thank you, Bishop Barron. I enjoy watching your videos, and you are doing God's work, unlike the trolls here who are the real phonies & don't even understand evangelization is not easy work & you can't just force on it people. These trolls are too comfy behind a keyboard and phones.

    God bless you, Bishop Barron. As well as the whole WOF team. Shout out to Fr. Steve in the back of the van. Hehe

  8. Father José María Iraburu, a renowned spaniard theologian, wrote a book that could be considered the best history of the evangelisation of America, it's entitled "Hechos de los Apóstoles de América" (Acts of the Apostles of America), and he aimed precisely to tell the story of the evangelisation in the same style and spirit of the book by St Luke on the first evangelisation of the apostles. It is highly recomended to have a right vision of the history of the epic evangelisation of the New Continent, and he is divulgating this work in his blog. In particular, about Fray Bartolome de las Casas, one can read this article:

    http://www.infocatolica.com/blog/reforma.php/1711211042-465-evangelizacion-de-america

    With regard to the rights of the indians, there is another figure, maybe greater than fray de las Casas, which is also a dominican, fray Francisco de Vitoria. One can read what F. Iraburu writes about him in this article:

    http://www.infocatolica.com/blog/reforma.php/1712120433-469-evangelizacion-de-america

  11. Sometimes I think we have focused social justice in such a way that we are willing to allow the sacrifice those we considered the powerful on the altar of race. Look at Europe you were just there.

  13. What's so sad about the whole grisly situation (that included very depraved torture) that de las Casas denounced is that he was merely trying to implement obvious violations of the Golden Rule, which Christ said summarized all the Law and the Prophets. Notice how that ALONE makes him weird. "Narrow is the way…"

  15. Loved hearing about Bartolome de las Casas and his fight for equality for all peoples. Of course, it had to come from the Catholic principles and I had no idea. Thanks for the inspiration. I wish I could hear about the dignity of every human being more at our parish these days of caged little children sleeping on the floor in my own state.

  20. The pivotal players series really is an inspiration for every Christian. To know how these individuals lived their lives in the service of God makes every Christian emulate and follow what they did. At least in our simple, humble way, we can put meaning and purpose for loving and living in this world – the way God's children should.

  21. Listening the story of Bartolome delas Casas, I realized the natives in the Philippine islands somehow are beneficiaries of his advocacy. When the Spaniards came to these parts to colonize and Christianize, they employed a much humane methodologies in response to Bartolome delas Casas' admonishment. The result was in a very short period of time majority of the natives were baptized. Almost immediately, the Christian way of life took root early on.

  24. Bartolome de las Casas is one of my biggest role models. Studying Human Rights, I find it upsetting that so few of the historians in the subject are aware of the immense debt we owe to forebears like las Casas, Francisco, Equiano, Wilberforce, etc. Without them there would BE no human rights.

  28. Let me get this straight. You want me to recognize his spiritual traditions? After he decimated all the tribes, stole all the gold, subjugated the meek, worked everyone to death literally, turned preacher, brought my black a… over he to pick up the slack? An You're instructing the ignorant? Buddy this guy is worst than Hitler in my eyes.

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